The role of ground-based remote sensors in boundary-layer research is reviewed,
emphasizing the contributions of radars, sodars, and lidars. The review begins with a brief …

Evaporation into the atmosphere is fundamental to the fields of hydrology, meteorology, and
climatology. With evolving interest in regional and global hydrologic processes there is an …

I outline the general features of the vertical profile of the vertical flux of a conservative scalar
in the planetary boundary layer, giving special emphasis to the convective case and …

An experiment is described showing that an optical scintillation instrument gives reliable
values of heat and momentum fluxes in the surface layer, subject to the usual restrictions of …

Given the significant rise of the utilization of wind energy the accurate assessment of the
wind potential is becoming increasingly important. Direct applications of wind assessment …

Because few geophysical surfaces are horizontally homogeneous, point measurements of
the turbulent surface fluxes can be unrepresentative. Path-averaging techniques are …

The structure parameters of temperature (CT 2), humidity (CQ 2) and temperature-humidity
(C TQ) were observed at a height of 4 m in the unstable surface layer using thin platinum …

Velocity and signal intensity data during stable conditions in the nocturnal boundary layer
(NBL) were obtained with a minisodar on two consecutive nights with similar mean …

Occurrences of intermittent turbulence in very stable conditions during theCASES-99 field
study near Leon, Kansas were detected at several sites separatedby horizontal distances …

Physical principles and design criteria for a large-aperture scintillometer conceived at the
NOAA Wave Propagation Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado are presented. This instrument …